Masterarbeit
Enhancing the TUCcloud with Collaborative Project Management Features
Completion
2024/12
Research Area
Students
Akshay Patil
Advisers
Description
Project management has become essential for project success,
providing a structured framework for planning, organizing, and controlling resources and
tasks. Collaborative project management platforms are becoming increasingly important as
they act as a centralized place to streamline the process. These platforms have to fulfill
two parts: providing a storage, most often accessible as a cloud service, for all files,
and providing collaborative features so that several team members can work at the same
time on one document.
TUCcloud is an existing cloud platform at the Technical
University of Chemnitz that currently offers file hosting, file management, communication,
and calendar management features. However, it lacks functionalities for collaborative
project management. As one of the central services at TU Chemnitz, TUCcloud should be
enhanced with features which can help in the collaborative management of research projects
like a whiteboard, a Gantt chart editor, a task management feature, and an improved
version control system.
The objective of this thesis is the creation of a
solution or the combination of existing approaches to solve the above described problem of
missing Collaborative Project Management Features in the TUCcloud or a similar
environment. This includes the analysis of the state of the art of collaboration tools,
project management platforms, desired features from users for such tools and platforms,
and other relevant literature. From this analysis, a possible solution should be
conceptualized and demonstrated by creating a prototypical implementation of such
features, as well as a suitable evaluation based on the user experience of this prototype
and its compliance with requirements which were extracted through the literature
research.
